I work at a University, its a 501c3 Jesuit institution, budgets and salaries are very lean. As a software developer I make 1/2 of market but I get free tuition.

I work at a University, its a 501c3 Jesuit institution, budgets and salaries are very lean. As a software developer I make 1/2 of market but I get free tuition. We receive dollars from FAFSA but little else due to our religious status. And yet, tuition is still high despite the amount of annual fund raising we perform. For our university tuition is 35k for a year, 17.5k for a semester or $1k per credit hour with most courses being 3 credit hours. Why does college cost so much? I've been working at one for 10 years now. I can state that its because operating a college is fucking expensive. Country club atmosphere my ass, we're packing these fucking sardines into closets because we've run out of housing! Why? Because in the ambition to keep tuition low and accessible to all students including all the scholarships we dish out we've got fucking nothing for building new dorms. Oh you want a rent a place off campus? Hah! Good luck finding an studio for under $1400 a month in this neighborhood that's half ghetto, half gentrified $500k row homes. This isn't a government in the pot problem, the truth of it is its an inflation problem. The cost of EVERYTHING has gone up, not just college, household wages have not increased to meet demand. "But little Johnny can stay at home and go to school." I hear you say. Nope, many, if not most, colleges require freshmen to live on campus at least one year. Furthermore, you often have parents that want their children to attend their alma mater. Stupid as that may be it often leads to parents shipping their kids all over the fucking place despite what the child's wishes may be. Bureaucracy? Nope, I'll admit there is bureaucracy but its not the cause of the problem and its certainly not the cost. "B-b-b-b-but big gubment!" I hear you retort. What big government? You think all schools are fat cat librals sitting on their tenure teaching communism to gentle minds? Man fuck you. You're the problem. The real reason college costs are so high is because of all the poor people we give scholarships to so disadvantaged students can have a chance at life outside of the situation they were born into. The problem is cutting taxes on rich twats that don't want to give back. Give em all free college and subsidize it off every schmuck that doesn't give a fuck if some poor kid chokes to death in the ashes of the trailer park they were born in.